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Tax treatment and funding challenges in qualified versus nonqualified pension plans

What are the permitted pension benefit plans? What is the problem? What is the solution?

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Political morality in the George W. Bush administration

The writer looks at classic texts to garner a sense of what political morality should be about and then holds the administration of Bush against the measurement to illustrate the lack of morality and the fact that it failed to promote the happiness of the United States people.

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Peter's confession of Jesus as the Messiah in Matthew 16:13-20

While the confession of Peter is found in all three of synoptic gospels (Matthew 16:13-20, Mark 8:27-30, Luke 9:18-21), the Book of Matthew offers the gospel center of the Galilean ministry.

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Charter schools' effectiveness in serving urban students of color

The nation's public schools are struggling to meet the challenges presented by the No Child Left Behind mandates, and charter schools have been suggested as one approach that holds the promise of providing public schools with the tools they need to succeed.

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Spontaneous remission and natural recovery from addiction

Spontaneous remission from addiction is often referred to under different titles. These include, natural recovery, maturing out, and unassisted change.

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Photography and the construction of Western national identity in early America

In her work Raw Histories: Photographs, Anthropology and Museums, Margaret Edwards outlines the most cogent and problematic issue surrounding the use of photography as a means of understanding cultural and social phenomena

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Escapism and family dysfunction in The Glass Menagerie and The Sound and the Fury

The writer explores the primary texts, and secondary sources to develop a critical analysis of the characters and their dysfunction and how escapism is used in both situations.

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Cultural influences on Chicana women's sexuality and self-worth

The purpose of this project will be an examination of how culture affects women of Chicana descent and how one's cultural upbringing impacts sexuality and sense of self-worth. Chicana women face unique hardships when it comes to recognizing their sense of self-worth and their sexuality.

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Fossil fuels remain necessary despite renewable energy alternatives

Installing solar collectors on rooftops and insulating homes in America will not provide citizens and businesses with the energy needed to keep American strong. It is paramount that the U.S. continues to use fossil fuels.

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Normandi Ellis's translation of the Egyptian Book of the Dead

The Egyptian Book of the Dead is a western title for an ancient collection of Egyptian manuscripts, the majority of which were funerary in nature. These collected writings have also been referred to as the Egyptian Bible or identified by the names of the scribes who penned them.

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